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Same Suspects Target Marijuana Cultivation Facility Again
The Sheriff’s Office is releasing the identities of the two suspects arrested for an attempted robbery yesterday, August 29, 2018, at a Marijuana Cultivation Facility in Carpinteria. The suspects are 31-year-old Tyrone Taylor of Lancaster and 45-year-old Henry Jernigan of Los Angeles. A third suspect is still outstanding.
The investigation revealed that Taylor and Jernigan were also involved in the June 9, 2018 armed robbery at the same business located in the 1500 block of Casitas Pass Road. In that case, four suspects held the security guard at gunpoint before fleeing with stolen property.
Taylor was booked at the Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of possession of burglary tools, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit crime.
Jernigan is booked on charges of attempted robbery, possession of burglary tools, possession of stolen property, conspiracy, vandalism, possession of tear gas, use of teargas and possession of a dirk or dagger.
Both suspects were also re-booked for the previous case on charges of kidnapping, robbery, false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit crime. Bail is set at more than one million dollars each.
If you have any information that would assist investigators, please call the Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division at 805-681-4150. To leave an Anonymous Tip, please call 805-681-4171 or go to our website at https://www.sbsheriff.org/
Update by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
Two suspects are in custody following an attempted robbery that occurred this morning, August 29, 2018 at a Marijuana Cultivation Facility located in the 1500 block of Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria. At approximately 6:25 a.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to an alarm at the facility. Employees reported that a group of suspects had broken into the grounds and sprayed one of the employees with pepper spray before fleeing in a white U-Haul van with Arizona license plates.
Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol Officers located the vehicle heading southbound on Highway 101. When the vehicle exited Victoria Avenue in Ventura County, CHP officers conducted a felony stop and arrested the two occupants inside the U-Haul. Pepper spray was recovered inside of the van.
Sheriff’s detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division are investigating the incident. They are investigating the possibility more suspects are involved in the incident. At this time, due to the active investigation no additional details will be released. We will provide updated information as soon as we are able.
Report of a robbery at 1530 Casitas Pass, Casitas Pass Gardens. There are two subjects wearing dark hoodies, one with a mask. They left in a U-Haul van South on Highway 101.
Alcoholics sure LOVE their alcohol and there are alot of drunks here how else can some people live with themselves…
Stalag Maryjane. Nice addition to the neighborhood.
It’s always fun to hear from the “reefer madness” ignorants.
Where’s that greenhouse full of weed…?
It advertises as a florist, nursery type business but I cannot see a florist getting robbed and though I hate the comments downing my beloved weed I must report crimes I hear on the Scanner…I’m not sure if it’s a grower of weed or not.
Maybe your right, having a greenhouse of marijuana in a city, close to residence and schools, may not be the best place, endangering a lot of people.
Victim was sprayed in the face, it was an armed robbery.
Keep in mind Marijuana growers are not the only places that get robbed…Grocery stores get robbed, gas stations, liquor stores, retail stores, people get robbed, many in the same areas of schools and residences maybe we should just out law everything…
All you have to do is breathe while on the 101 and you know what at least one of those green houses is growing. What did they expect?
CRYSALANDMAUI – Maybe we should re-think banks in a city too, huh?
Gosh, who ever could e predicted that allowing unlimited unpermitted high profit cannabis operations in a previously quiet, semi-rural community would generate and attract the black market crime ……. and i fully expect the cannabis crazies to respond with their usual “whatabout-isms” re alcohol, liquor stores, etc. the day that the Federal Government agrees to regulate cannabis as it regulates alcohol will be the day you can make that comparison. Until the , it is the wild west and public health and safety be damned
How many orchid growers in Carpinteria got robbed? Those are expensive plants too.
Our very own narco turf wars. How charming.
I’ll make any comparison I like by Thank You for the control attempt most of your violent criminals were under the influence of alcohol when they broke the laws getting to the point where they might not be many laws pretty soon your leader has more to do with that then weed…Keep blaming the wrong things that is where the money is at.
Blatantly untrue. Who makes this shite up? Maybe you’ve been partaking to often.
NAMASTEYOGI – despite your screen name, you post consistently intolerant and ignorant posts. Why? What “type of people” do you think marijuana “brings into your community?” People who smoke pot? Hate to break it to you, but “those people” have already been here and everywhere, despite pot farms. As for “the type” that leaves their dog poo in your yard, I see them all over, every neighborhood and they aren’t generally “types” that would be interested in pot farms. So, what’s your point?
You’re right, fake yogi … alcohol is a dangerous harmful poison that makes people commit violent crime, and it fuels awful people in our community … check your mirror.
I suspect fetal alcohol syndrome. That’s the best way to explain Nama and the rest of these right wingers with their xenophobia and general low level of cognitive function.
Alcoholics anonymous can help.
Very well said! And marijuana and alcohol is like comparing apples and oranges. Totally ridiculous. The fact that they moved this amount of production yards of marijuana into carp is a disgrace The type of people that it brings into our community is less than desirable. It’s the type that will let their dog take a big dump and not pick it up. I’ve seen it unfortunately.
unpermitted? unlimited operations? More people would side with if you didnt make up facts. all the grows are permitted, and are limited with LOTS of restrictions.
No, actually the county has yet to issue permits. Places like this rushed to get in under the pretense they were medicinal collectives and therefore “grandfathered” without ever having to go through actual review and then got temp state licenses. Its been a shell game
Banks, gas stations, liquor stores, the sprint store and Trader Joe’s have all had armed robberies this year. Shall we get rid of them because they tend to attract a certain “type”? These people will rob what ever and who ever they can.
I’m loving your ironic name.
This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
Now a robbery at a LEGAL growing site is comparable to “narco turf wars”??!
Reaffirming what I keep saying…. y’all wanted LA here… now you got it. Get ready, it isn’t going to get better.
I really get a kick out of “the type” the cannabis industry brings to town. I’ve been in Carp 42 years, Montecito before that, and don’t quite fit your “type” of BAD persons. Nor do any of my friends. Most Carpinteria green houses have permits; illegal ones will get busted or need to get onboard. How about the Montecito home robberies lately, should homeowners not be allowed to have valuables tempting thieves?
“Six of one, or half dozen of the other.” is how I think it goes.
After 80 years of prohibition, still trying to vilify a harmless plant.
Weed is not the boogeyman.
Let’s make Banks illegal . There are too many hold ups and robberies at Banks .
Outlaw liquor stores . Just go to, Macs at, Guiterrez and Anacapa Streets in Santa Barbara to see what liquor stores do to the community .
No, the boogeyman is anyone who maces you and holds you up at gunpoint every couple of weeks to take your harmless plants worth tens-of-thousands of dollars. Think of this way, how many people have been murdered over foxtail agaves?